Planting winter wheat on ground in Bureau County represented a notable departure from the long-standing corn-soybean rotation that has traditionally defined much of north-central Illinois agriculture. Incorporating wheat into that system was not something that was initially expected to be widely considered by local producers, yet the field served as a real-world example of how rotations can evolve to meet agronomic and economic goals.
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Wheat harvest begins in late June on a double-crop field in southern Illinois.
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